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Pure Comedy • 2017
Birdie
Father John Misty
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Lyrics of Birdie by Father John Misty
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Take off, little winged creature
It's nothing but teens in ravines
And antics on concrete down here
And are you really as free as all the great songs would have me believe?
Let me tell you why some day, Birdie, you're gonna envy me
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Some dream of a world written in lines of code
Well, I hope they engineer out politics, romance, and edifice
Two outta three ain't bad
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Some envision a state governed by laws of business
Merger and acquisition instead of violence or nations
Where do I sign up?
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Take off, little winged creature
It's nothing but falling debris, strollers, and babies down here
And you may be up in the sky but our paradigms are just as deep and just as wide
What with all our best attempts at transcendence
Something's bound to take
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Soon, we'll live in a global culture devoid of gender or race
There's just one tiny line:
You're either born behind
Or you're free to peek inside
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Life as just narrative, metadata in aggregate
Where the enigma of humanity's wrapped up finally
That as they say is that
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Oh, that day can't come soon enough
It'll be so glorious
When they finally find out what's bugging us
Writer(s): Joshua Michael Tillman
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Pure Comedy
Album • 2017 • 13 tracks
1
Pure Comedy
Father John Misty
2
Total Entertainment Forever
Father John Misty
3
Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
Father John Misty
4
Ballad of the Dying Man
Father John Misty
5
Birdie
Father John Misty
6
Leaving LA
Father John Misty
7
A Bigger Paper Bag
Father John Misty
8
When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay
Father John Misty
9
Smoochie
Father John Misty
10
Two Wildly Different Perspectives
Father John Misty
11
The Memo
Father John Misty
12
So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain
Father John Misty
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